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1  She was as imitative as a glass diamond.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  His companions were yelping in imitation of coyotes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  A "lady elocutionist" who recited Kipling and imitated children.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  Erik had been seen in flannels and an imitation panama hat, playing on the abandoned court with Willis Woodford, the clerk in Stowbody's bank.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  But she put her arm about his waist, her sleek head by his chest; she tugged at him; she clicked her tongue in imitation of Kennicott's cheerful noises.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  The houses on the outskirts were dusky old red mansions with wooden frills, or gaunt frame shelters like grocery boxes, or new bungalows with concrete foundations imitating stone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Today, in reeking early August, she wore a man's cap, a skinny fur like a dead cat, a necklace of imitation pearls, a scabrous satin blouse, and a thick cloth skirt hiked up in front.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  Erik gave an imitation of the Greek dancers he had seen in vaudeville, and when they sat down to picnic supper spread on a lap-robe on the grass, Cy climbed a tree to throw acorns at them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  But when snow had ended the skating and she tried to get up a moonlight sliding party, the matrons hesitated to stir away from their radiators and their daily bridge-whist imitations of the city.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  A rocker had a back like a lyre, a near-leather seat imitating tufted cloth, and arms like Scotch Presbyterian lions; with knobs, scrolls, shields, and spear-points on unexpected portions of the chair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  She gazed about their bedroom, and its full dismalness crawled over her: the awkward knuckly L-shape of it; the black walnut bed with apples and spotty pears carved on the headboard; the imitation maple bureau, with pink-daubed scent-bottles and a petticoated pin-cushion on a marble slab uncomfortably like a gravestone; the plain pine washstand and the garlanded water-pitcher and bowl.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV